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When something seems utterly unbelievable, it perhaps ought not to be believed. Dutch television broadcaster BNN provoked an international uproar this week when it announced plans to air a live TV game show pitting rival kidney patients against one another in pursuit of a donor organ. But when the show ran on Friday, it proved to be a hoax...
...idea was "beyond even our standards," in the words of presenter Patrick Lodiers, referring to the notoriety the youth-oriented network has gained from previous controversial shows. But the network's stated intention had always been to raise awareness of the shortage of donor organs. "We wanted to make a statement," BNN chairman Laurens Drillich said in a press release after the show. "That worked. In the past seven days there has been more debate about organ donation than in the last seven years...
...genetic matches to either parent - they are embryos, which means they are as genetically different from mom and dad as children are. So if a parent needs a precisely genetically matched tissue type, these stem cells may not be of much use. Krtolica points out, however, that many organs, including livers and kidneys, are routinely donated today by relatives, and that such organ donations could be made easier by utilizing banked stem cells...
...park ranger at neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was killed by drug smugglers. Vehicle barriers, which allow animals to pass back and forth, are now in place along parts of the Arizona border. More are planned and will soon be protecting Cabeza Prieta. But drug smugglers have adapted and DiRosa said there has been an increase in backpacking gangs. On the Mexican side, conservationists face the same challenges - one large Mexican refuge has several clandestine airstrips operated by the cartels, which operate with impunity...
...beheadings who had earned the nickname Afghanistan's Zarqawi. But his death won't likely damage the Taliban any more than Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi's liquidation - or, in recent months, his lieutenants' - has slowed al-Qaeda's savagery in Iraq. Insurgencies are adaptable beasts: remove one vital organ and another will regenerate...